svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

[Benjamin Kaduk]

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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:

> Irrelevant.  Consider this (extreme) situation: someone distributes
> several sets of sysctl values tuned for certain situations, like
> tcp.conf, supermicro.conf, ... and wants to put them together in a
> directory, it's useful to source from the directory without having to
> do a generation of command line on boot, so when something goes wrong,
> they just remove the pack rather than changing /etc/rc.conf.
>

Not a direct reply, but just noting that it can be *very* useful to have,
e.g., a README or foo.old or foo.disabled file in
the same directory where the "live" configuration files live.  Always
interpreting the full '*' glob is not always the best
thing to do.

-Ben Kaduk